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Douglas richard hofstadter born february 15, 1945 is an american scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogymaking, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. These are the mysteries tackled in i am a strange loop, douglas hofstadters first booklength journey into philosophy since godel, escher, bach. Richard hofstadter was an american public intellectual, historian and dewitt clinton professor of american history at columbia university. Every few decades an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary. Dec 21, 2011 winner of the pulitzer prize in nonfiction.
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